Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A carburetor.
- n. Informal A carbohydrate.
Wiktionary
- n. informal, usually plural Short for carbohydrate.
- n. informal Short for carburettor / carburetor.
Examples
“Now why he didn't use the carb is a different question ....”
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“With the increasing popularity of low-carb diets, the word carb somehow started to stand in for calorie, the thing dieters have been told they desperately need to avoid.”
“I am still in carb bliss, and think I will use it to get the office cleaned up.”
“I understand that the network needs to constantly stay ahead of and predict trends, and they obviously do that with inductions of new shows, like the "carb"-focused ones, but surely not at the expense of the stable of veterans that built FoodTV from the beginning to what it is today.”
“I want to reread and digest, but at first blush it looks like long-term carb adaptation occurs so that ketosis really isn’t a problem.”
“This particular one contains 35 grams of carb, which is the equivalent of almost a quarter of a cup of pure sugar.”
“I knew it was pretty high carb, which is why I chose it as my night-before carb up.”
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“Consequently, for years it was thought that low-carb diets reduced endurance, and the idea of carb loading was developed.”
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“Back then, a carb was a hole on the piece that allowed you to "shotgun" your um ... green fun.”
“Re-building a carb was a right of passage for most of the guys I grew up with.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘carb’.
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A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Words from a 2006 'A Scanner Darkly' film.
aphid, scramble, purport, toll, lurch, cold turkey, pharmacopoeia, vasoconstriction, inordinate, front money, meth, providence and 67 more...
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Choppers
Words that have been cut down from their original glory, ie. apocopes, but are still 'understandable' in the chopped form. eg. doc for doctor. Most of them are horribilisms, I know :-( Let's keep t...
doc, rep, van, bus, fridge, pub, flu, hon, santa, diff, blog, exam and 49 more...
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